Train of Thought

The subway trains are organized by color/number/letter, and so, you're waiting for the D Train on the orange line to get home. Underground, the platform is hot, mucky, and you're sweating all kinds of nasty off your face. You see a bright, warm light at the end of the tunnel. This train is coming your way, it's going to stop right in front of you, and you don't even have to open the door yourself. What an honor! You feel like royalty. It's still a little far but the hope in that one orange circle on that train's facade eases your soul. Thoughts of a shower, a bed, a mumu fills your mind like quenching thirst with a glass of marinara sauce. So you hop on this heavenly metal swan that will fly you towards the comforts of home.

The train, oh the train!

Refreshing air conditioning showers over you, the fluorescent lights bring you back to elementary school where you attained a free education and a rectangular pizza with cubed pepperonis for lunch: the greatest gift of all, and a whimsical orange seat straight out of Charles and Ray Eames' office cradles you into the journey. You are on your way, my friend. You are on your way home. You are reminiscing the beautiful memories made that day as the train glides into Brooklyn for instance: dirt cheap dumplings for lunch as well as the choice to wear suede shoes in the rain and the wonders that will do to your feet. Then a muffled, "aslthisjskd jsiskdj a mmmmrgheeeee train, 7 Ave. is the next stop," and you think, "hm, the D train never stops at 7 Ave." Motivated to investigate, you pick up your eyes and look upon the subway wall. It is an orange circle. The letter inscribed to the center of this geometric delight is a B. SHIIIIIIIIIII-

D Train. D as in Desired Train.

B Train. B as in it-would-be-a-Big-ol'-biiii----Bother-to-attempt-getting-home-from-this-train.

How I processed it: 1. The D train is indicated by a D centered in a circle 2. My mind circled, enlarged, and centered 1/2 of the B from the B train; 3. I squinted and confirmed it was the correct train.

I was also pleased with a modified "Wet Paint" sign at some point during the day.